Labour Poised To Release Thousands More Violent Prisoners as Prisons System Faces Total Collapse

The UK’s prison estate is crumbling fast and after terrorist Hashem Abedi’s violent attack on prison officers at ‘supermax’ jail HMP Frankland (don’t worry, his knife and fork have now been replaced with a spork), tensions are high. Never fear, Shabana Mahmood is in charge…

The Justice Secretary raised eyebrows last year when she conceded that even her own government’s prison expansion plan – to add 14,000 more places by 2031 – may not be adequate.[…] Read the rest